Richard Leblanc's Reviews > The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment

An excellent book that suffers from a poor structure. The Q&A format is laborious in places, though the messages are sound they are hard to unravel. Tolle is very direct in places and this may put off readers. His technique is designed to jolt thinking away, to move away from too much thinking that plagues us everyday. Unfortunately the format of the book requires too much thinking detracting from the message and the techniques offered.

An option is Practicing The Power of Now: Essential Teachings, Meditations, and Exercises. It covers the same ground in a condensed and practical way. Even that book will require much reflection and rereading, but it is much more breezy and useful - requiring less thinking while reading. It has plenty of WTF and aha moments. Before reading that I'd recommend Yehuda Berg's Satan: An Autobiography - simply because it dissects the concept of EGO as an THE ADVERSARY in a manner that lends itself to the methods of understanding and dismissing the EGO as presented in Tolle's works.

Practicing the Power of Now: Essential Teachings, Meditations, and Exercises from the Power of Now


Satan: An Autobiography